Sage Fast Dog knows the importance of the federal system for educating Native Americans through the Bureau of Indian Education. But he also knows its flaws and limitations. Growing up on the Rosebud ...

With the 3rd-highest poverty rate in the U.S., an Oglala Lakota County group hopes to improve tribal sovereignty by teaching ...

A four-pack of rez dogs trotted toward the lone grocery store, greeting and tailing human companions in hopes of a spare scrap. But food isn’t the easiest to come by for many residents here. This ...

Leonard Peltier, 80, sits in his bedroom on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Reservation in North Dakota on June 18. A campaign poster for Deb Haaland’s 2026 New Mexico gubernatorial run hangs ...

It’s been 21 years, but I still remember the bleak Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — The only suicide prevention outreach program on a South Dakota Indian reservation where at least 15 young people have killed themselves this year will end in December due to ...

PIERRE, S.D. (South Dakota News Watch) - The Bureau of Indian Affairs plans to provide the first of the promised grants for tribal radio stations by the end of this year or early next, a department ...

The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council will be asked to approve a search for the remains of a Black civil rights activist who disappeared during the 1973 Wounded Knee standoff. He is likely buried on the ...

OGLALA LAKOTA COUNTY, S.D. (South Dakota News Watch) - The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council will be asked to approve a search for the remains of a Black civil rights activist who disappeared during the ...

The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council will be asked to approve a search for the remains of a Black civil rights activist who disappeared during the 1973 Wounded Knee standoff. He is likely buried on the ...

State authorities recently announced an Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Public Safety officer was justified in firing his gun while trying to stop a fleeing suspect. South Dakota Attorney General ...